PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR HEALTH
RADIO SERIES

October 13, 1938

"Our Young Teachers Write Home"

 

Dre Forrest Ce. Allen and Iifiss Elizabeth Dunkel.

Dre Alien

Miss Dunkel

Tonight we invite you to chat with us about a group of young
people who have dedicated themselves to the service of teach-
inge When these young people took their jobs they hardly
recognized the far reach of their influences The full real-
ization of their responsibility, as it were, came to then
unawarese The intermediate and the high school pupils were
the ones who made these young teachers feel their importance
and their respénsibility. Of course, these teachers have had
real professional training which well fitted them for their
tasks. These aspiring young teachers who thrilled the younge
sters, and then in turn were thrilled by these youngsters,
were university seniors less than one year ago tonighte

Miss Dunkel, I wderstand that you have received several letters
from your former students of last year who are now in their
first teaching positions. Weren't you terribly proud of these
expressions of responsibility coming from these teachers whom
you trained so recently?

Dre Allen, I am proud and pleased with the reports that have
been coming in from our majors who have just matriculated into
their lives as teacherse And I've takon the liberty of bring-~
ing letters from these girls so you and our radio audience

can enjoy them, toos Now, I'm not reading these just for the
sake of gossip, but because they have left me with some ideas
for reflectione They hold a message of deep importance not
only for us who are training teachers in physical education,
but also for the parents of youngsters who pass under the
teaching and influence of these teacherse

Now here is the first letter from Ruth Baker. You remember
Ruth Baker started her university career os a mathematics
major and later ehanged to physical education, She holds a
position in the Salina high school this year, The whole tone
of her letter is ecstatic, Here are a few lines from its

“When I heard the football broadcast I felt that Itd like to
be back in K.U. «~ but no, Itm too well pleased here in Salina.
If all the other graduates of last spring are one-half as
happy as I, they are really onjoying thomselvese" . e « Then
after describing hor classes, she mentions, "Of course there's
some work connected with our profession = I find the physical
education teacher is chief 'gamcegettcer! for all and any school
organization picnic or partye Also Itve found that every child
who gets a bruise, scratch, broken bone or a case of illness is